Events and Activities

Chinese Studies Student Seminar Series 2009/10 (25 November 2009 to 14 April 2010) The Construction of Women as National Body in Twentieth Century China – by Liang Yue (14 April 2010) A Study about the Female Labor Immigrants in Pearl River Delta from the Perspective of Feminist Geography – by Guo Chunlan (24 March 2010) Jades from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng: the Development of Burial Jades in the Eastern Zhou Period – by Yau Ka Man (10 March 2010) From 'demonized' to 'desirable': Eurasians in Hong Kong – by Deng Yuanye (24 February 2010) The Ghost City Temple Festival: Legacies in the New City – by Tan Xilin (3 February 2010) Age difference in anger responses under relationship contexts: A comparison of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese – by You Jin (27 January 2010) Religious Art of Chu Culture: A Case Study of Tianxingguan Tomb 2 – by Li Kin Sum Sammy (2 December 2009) Film Noir in Hong Kong: Global Cinematic Flows from the 1940s to the 1960s – by Van Den Troost Kristof (25 November 2009)

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (26-29 November 2009)

New Approaches to the Study of Daoism in Chinese Culture and Society (26 November 2009 to 28 November 2009)

王士元、曾志朗系列講座課程﹕語言與大腦 - by Prof. William S-Y. Wang and Prof. Ovid J.L. Tzeng (19 October 2009 to 29 November 2009)

The Rose of Time - by Prof. Bei Dao (13 October 2009)

Annual Workshop of the Project “The Formation and Development of the Disciplines in Twentieth Century China” - by Prof. Arif Dirlik (9-10 July 2009)

China and Global Modernity Lecture Series (November 2008 to June 2009) Chinese Cinemas and Global Modernity - by Drs. Esther Cheung, Gina Marchetti and Esther Yau (3 June 2009) Decolonizing Global Modernity: Urban Cultural Movement in Hong Kong - by Prof. Mirana Szeto (13 May 2009) Cultural Citizenship and the Chinese Communities in Europe during the Twentieth Century - by Prof.Leo Douw (6 May 2009) Institutionalising Confucius: One More Try to Modernise and Globalise Kong Qiu - by Prof. Kam Louie (15 April 2009) Chinese Art in the Court of Queen Victoria - by Prof.Greg M Thomas (8 April 2009) Linguistic Modernity and Universal Knowledge: The Invention of Modern Chinese Language - by Prof. QS Tong and Prof. Christopher Hutton (18 March 2009) China Westward: Chinese Export Porcelain and the Early Modern Globalization - by Prof. Cheng Pei-Kai (11 March 2009) Underground Culture and Modernist Art in the Cultural Revolution - by Prof. Wang Aihe (18 February 2009) Islam, China and the Internet: The Sinicization of Cyberspace, Hegemonic Patriotism & Connectivity to the Ummah - by Prof. Ho Wai-Yip (14 January 2009) Eurasian Humanism: Translocal Cultural Flows Before the East-West Divide - by Prof. Roxann Prazniak (8 December 2008) Global Modernity - by Prof. Arif Dirlik (27 November 2008)

The Prometheus Lectures on Knowledge and Humanity (Spring 2008) Concluding Forum (24 April 2008) Language as a Bridge Between Science and the Soul – by Prof. William S.Y. Wang (22 April 2008) Humanities and Its Discontent – by Prof. Leo Ou-fan Lee (18 April 2008) Civilization-Talk and the Humanities: Predicament and Promise – by Prof. Arif Dirlik (27 March 2008)

Seminars (Spring 2008) “It’s a Hit in Japan”: Japanese Popular Culture and Young Asian Consumers – by Prof. Lynne Nakano (3 April 2008) Houses of Chinese Mestizos – Social History of Urban Elites in the Philippines – by Dr. Yamaguchi Kiyoko (19 March 2008) Reterritorialization of a Southeast Asian Chinese Community in China: The Balinese Chinese in Quanzhou, Fujian – by Prof. Tan Chee Beng (6 March 2008) Making Law Count without the Rule of Law: Economic Reform and State Labor Regulation in Vietnam – by Prof. Kim Jee Young (28 February 2008) The Importance of Being Chinese: Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity – by Prof. Chu Yiu Wai (31 January 2008) Can We Have A Better Understanding of “East Asian Cinema”? - by Prof. Yau Shuk Ting (17 January 2008)